Welcome, everyone, to Uncovering Asia: The Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference. From September 23 to 25, we are bringing together top investigative reporters, data journalists, and media law and security experts from across Asia and around the world.

Below you will find more than 60 sessions and special events. There are panels on digging out hidden facts online, the environment, business, and how to fund your project; seminars on security and tracking dirty money; data journalism workshops by the best in the business; and much more.

You can follow us on Twitter at #IJAsia16. On behalf of your hosts — the Global Investigative Journalism Network, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Nepal, we wish you a big hello! Namaste!

Qiu Jiaqiu

Qiu Jiaqiu is founder of Real Image Media in China. A former director of Caixin Video and Xinhua News journalist. He serves as a guest lecturer at Fudan University, Renmin University of China and at the Global Youth Leadership Program by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Peking University. His awards include a Special Contribution Citation for InternationalDisaster and Reconstruction, a Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture Award, Xinhua News 10 Best Reporting pieces, Excellence in Journalistic Innovation of SOPA, and an Annual Journalism Award from China’s Ministry of Land and Resources.

Leading change in media in China, especially on featured films of real(investigative) themes, VR news and documentaries, Qiu has organized and supervised many documentary films and VR projects for Caixin and Real Image Media. Among them are China’s first VR documentary Kindergarten in the Mountain Village, and a six-part VR series on the Shenzhen Landfill Collapse The latter marked the first time that VR technology was applied in major disasters reporting in China.

Real Image Media（China） is committed to promoting the visualization of real themes inspired from worldwide. It is an independent observer with the value orientation of humanism and sustainable development. It digs value of the times in economic, social and cultural phenomena professionally providing compatible marketing references for public policy formulation and social innovation. Real Image Media has Real Image Foundation, and through the matrix of its own vertical platform, strategic cooperation platform, offline cinema alliance, Movie For Change film festivals and Co-production&distribution team, it supports ecologically on the documentaries, featured films, VR and investigative newsreels of real themes.